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VISAVisa Taps Chris Newkirk To Serve As Chief Strategy Officer
To lead strategic planning for the firm overall and in conjunction with its regional teams, Chris Newkirk is coming to Visa Inc. as its...
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CoronavirusAccenture, Verizon Effort Seeks To Connect Jobless Workers, Hiring Companies
The number of layoffs in the U.S. has skyrocketed as the COVID-19 crisis ravages the economy. At the same time, other companies,...
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RidesharingLyft Directs Drivers To Take Jobs At Amazon
While the coronavirus forces consumers to stay inside, Amazon is joining forces with Lyft to attract drivers for grocery and package deliveries....
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Walmart Amazon whole paycheckWalmart Amazon Whole Paycheck Tracker: Responding, Reorganizing And Resetting For COVID-19
As the COVID-19 virus continues to spread in the U.S. and the measures to contain it become more drastic and more strictly...
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RetailWalmart Speeds Up Application Process In Hiring Drive Amid Coronavirus
As it works to maintain a supply of products on its shelves and keep its checkouts manned over the COVID-19 pandemic, Walmart has brought...
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CoronavirusInstacart Plans On Hiring 300,000 US Shoppers To Fulfill Orders As China’s Tencent To Track Students’ Health
Here are the latest updates on the impacts of the coronavirus from around the world. Instacart will add 300,000 more full-service shoppers...
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CoronavirusCoronavirus: CVS Health Looks To Hire 50,000 Workers; H&M Mulls Temporary Layoffs
Retailers are adapting their operations and rolling out initiatives amid COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. Here are the latest updates...
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Next-Gen DebitADP On Prepaid Cards, Digital Wallets’ Role In The Future Of Payroll
Biweekly direct deposit is losing its cha-ching with job seekers — more Gen Z candidates expect to access their earnings instantly via...
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PersonnelLendingClub Hires Uber’s Annie Armstrong As Chief Risk Officer
LendingClub announced on Wednesday (Feb. 26) its new Chief Risk Officer Annie Armstrong, who has decades of experience in risk management for financial...
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Digital BankingMonzo Hopes For Profit, New Digital Accounts And Hires
British digital bank Monzo, expanding fast, wants to hire up to 500 people and (hopefully) reach 5.5 million users this year. The...
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eCommerceeCommerce Drives Logistics Job Boom
The rise of eCommerce is an inexorable one, with real-world ripple effects that extend all the way to feet and wheels on...
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SMBsData Shows Hiring Stalled At US Small Businesses In 2019
Employee head count at U.S. small businesses remained stagnant last year, despite record growth among larger firms’ employment, The Wall Street Journal...
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PersonnelAirbnb Taps Former Disney President To Head Up Airbnb Experiences
Airbnb has hired Catherine Powell, a 15-year Disney veteran, to head up its Experiences division, the firm announced this week. She was...
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RetailSoftBank-Backed Grofers Hires 4K Employees For Shopping Event
Online grocery company Grofers has contributed ₹100 crore to boost its India operations. A top official also confirmed that the company has...
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PersonnelAfterpay Taps Veteran Mobile Exec To Lead Global Products
Afterpay has appointed former Fanatics executive and longtime mobile leader David Katz as its new global chief product officer, the company announced...
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PersonnelFundbox Picks New CFO
B2B credit and payments company Fundbox announced that it has named Marten Abrahamsen as its new CFO, according to a press release....
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B2B PaymentsHow Payroll Evolves Alongside Cross-Border Payments
Workforces are going global. Discovering and hiring talent from across borders is now easier than ever. For many businesses, hiring in other...
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RetailRetail Holiday Hiring Reflects Focus On eCommerce, Speed
With a greater emphasis on speed and online shopping, holiday hiring needs have changed amid shifting consumer preferences. Large retailers are set...
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What's HotAmazon Beefs Up Seasonal Warehouse Employees Ahead Of Holiday Demand
Amazon has announced that it’s going to hire 200,000 temp workers for the holiday season, according to Bloomberg. The workers will handle...
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RetailWalmart Taps Kathryn McLay To Lead Sam’s Club
Walmart-owned Sam’s Club has appointed Kathryn McLay to serve as president and chief executive officer, replacing John Furner, who this month succeeded...
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PersonnelGoogle Hires First Chief Health Officer
As the tech giant aggressively pursues the health market, Google has hired former Obama administration health official Karen DeSalvo as its first chief health...
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RegulationFed Concerned Trade War Could Trigger Recession
Federal Reserve officials are worried that slowing global growth, exacerbated by the U.S.-China trade war, could sap domestic hiring and economic activity,...
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B2B PaymentsSMBs Enter 2019’s Final Quarter With Plate Full Of Concerns
The year’s final quarter is upon us, marking an opportunity to look back at Q3 and obtain a reading of small businesses’...
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RetailIKEA To Take On Amazon With Expanded Smart Home Offerings
IKEA is making big moves into the smart home ecosphere with its biggest investment in decades. The company wants to become a...
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PersonnelBlueVine Hires PayPal Exec As CCO
Silicon Valley FinTech startup BlueVine has named Brad Brodigan as chief commercial officer to oversee sales and other income-producing functions, the company...
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EconomyAmid Trade War, US Job Growth Misses Estimates
The trade war, indirectly, seems to have had an impact on hiring. The latest data from the Labor Department show that in...
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InvestmentsCarlyle Group Makes Large Investment In AI Hiring Firm HireVue
Large investment and equity firm Carlyle Group has taken a majority stake in an artificial intelligence (AI) hiring firm called HireVue, according...
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PersonnelCred Crypto Lender Names PayPal Veteran As CFO
Cred, a global crypto-backed lending and borrowing platform, has announced the addition of two executive team members. Joe Podulka, a 10-year veteran...
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PersonnelWalmart Adds Two Global Governance Leaders To Support Financial Services
To help advise its financial services business as one global team, Walmart has added two new global governance leaders. Emma Waddell will...
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RegulationCitigroup Fined $1.25M For Background Check Infractions
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has fined Citigroup’s global markets business $1.25 million for not performing background checks on thousands of...
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eCommerceOpendoor Trims Employees And Perks
Opendoor, the startup that operates an online platform for buying and selling homes, “is reshuffling staff and scaling back on a time-honored...
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B2B PaymentsCash Flow Worries Limit SMB Hiring
Some of the world’s largest conglomerates are raising concerns about an impending economic recession in the U.S., supply chain disruptions stemming from...
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FacebookFacebook Recruits Blockchain Program Manager
Facebook is reportedly seeking “to hire a finance program manager in blockchain,” according to a new job posting. The move comes amid the...
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SMBsSmall Business Optimism Rises To Historic Highs
New data showed that small business optimism rose 1.5 points to 105 in May, surpassing pre-shutdown levels. According to the National Federation...
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PersonnelMastercard Names New President Of Canadian Operations
Mastercard announced on Thursday (May 30) the appointment of Sasha Krstic as president of the company’s Canadian operations. In a press release,...
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PersonnelWalmart Nabs Ex-Google Exec As CTO, CDO
Walmart has hired Suresh Kumar as its new chief technology officer and chief development officer, according to a report. Kumar will report...
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CFPBCFPB Announces New Hires
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has announced additions to its senior leadership and executive teams via an emailed press release. One...
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SMBsSMBs Struggle To Cope With New Trade Tariffs
Small businesses have sent out a warning to the Trump administration over new tariffs being levied on Chinese goods. The White House...
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B2B PaymentsHiring Pains, Revenue Optimism Hit Small Business Week
In honor of Small Business (SMB) Week, which kicks off in the U.S. on Monday (May 6), banks and financial service providers...
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Walmart Amazon whole paycheckThe Amazon/Walmart Whole Paycheck Tracker: Glimpsing The Future Of Automation And One-Day Delivery
This week both Amazon and Walmart were offering up pictures — albeit with very different levels of detail built in — of how the...
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InvestmentsPlaid Is Looking To Hire In Europe
Plaid, the FinTech platform provider that recently raised $250 million in venture funding, is gearing up to expand into Europe. According to...
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AmazonAmazon’s New Arlington HQ Looks To Hire 400 This Year
Amazon has announced that it’s looking to fill jobs for its new headquarters in Arlington, Va., and to help build up the...
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DeliveryPostmates To Hire More Engineers As It Expands In The Seattle Area
Postmates, the delivery startup that competes against Grubhub, among others, and is expected to launch an initial public offering (IPO), is reportedly...
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EconomyHiring Boom Sees 196K New Jobs In US
Following a slowdown in February, hiring in the United States rebounded in March, when non-farm payrolls rose by a seasonally adjusted 196,000...
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AmazonEx-GM EVP Finds A New Home At Amazon
Amazon has hired General Motors‘ (GMs’) executive vice president of global manufacturing. Citing sources familiar with the matter, The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported...
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EarningsDampening Earnings Outlook Signals US Corporate Recession?
A recession is generally defined as two consecutive quarters of negative growth. You may be, of course, familiar with the idea of an...
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BitcoinBitcoin Daily: Ripple Mulls XRP Recruiting Bonuses; Facebook Hires Talent From Blockchain Startups
Ripple reportedly offered bonuses via its digital currency during its recruiting process, according to CoinDesk. One unnamed source was said to have...
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PersonnelFacebook Buys Chainspace Team For Blockchain Push
Facebook is making a big push into blockchain technology with some new hires, according to reports. The company recently hired four people...
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RetailNeiman Marcus Names Two Execs As It Builds Luxury Platform
Neiman Marcus Group announced Tuesday (Feb. 5) the appointment of two executives to lead its customer and store strategies. In a press release,...
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SMBsSMBs Reign In Spending, Hiring
Coming off a strong 2018, small business owners are becoming more conservative in terms of how many investments they make and how...
